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The five kingdoms
The first big division of living things is to put them into one of five kingdoms. These are based on what an organism's cells are like. The table shows the names of the kingdoms and examples of the sort of organisms they contain.
| Kingdom |
Examples |
| Protoctists |
Amoeba
Paramecium |
| Prokaryotes |
Bacteria
Blue-green algae |
| Fungi |
Moulds
Mushrooms
Yeast |
| Plants |
All green plants, including:
Algae, ferns and mosses (plants that do not produce seeds)
Conifers and flowering plants (plants that do produce seeds) |
| Animals |
All multicellular animals, including:
jellyfish, worms, arthropods, molluscs, echinoderms, amphibians, fish, reptiles, birds and mammals |
We are going to look at the main groups in the animal kingdom.
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